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harquebus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈhɑɹkwɪbʌs/
• /ˈhɑɹkɪbʌs/

Etymology

From French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.

Meanings

1. An obsolete matchlock firearm.
   • All the while they had their eye and foot so quicke and readie, that as soone as ever they saw the harquebuse raised to the cheeke, so soon were they on the ground, and eftsoone to answer with their bowes, and to the their way, if by chance they perceived that we were about to take them. 1850, William Gilmore Simms, The Lily and the Totem: or, The Huguenots in Florida, Digitalized edition, Baker and Schribner, published 2009, page 292:
2. A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.

Forms

Translations (44)

th ปืนไฟ (obsolete matchlock firearm) · br akebut (obsolete matchlock firearm) · id senapan kopak (obsolete matchlock firearm) · no arkebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · de Arkebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · de Hakenbüchse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ast arcabuz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · co arcusgiu (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sh aркебуза (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ro archebuză (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ko 조총 (obsolete matchlock firearm) · el αρκεβούζιο (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ca arcabús (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sl arkebuza (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sh arkebuza (obsolete matchlock firearm) · fr arquebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · la arquebusum (obsolete matchlock firearm) · cmn 火繩槍 /火绳枪 (obsolete matchlock firearm) · cs arkebuza (obsolete matchlock firearm) · gl arcabuz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sk hákovnica (obsolete matchlock firearm) · fi arkebuusi (obsolete matchlock firearm) · pl arkebuza (obsolete matchlock firearm) · it archibugio (obsolete matchlock firearm) · io arkabuzo (obsolete matchlock firearm) · nn arkebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sk arkebúza (obsolete matchlock firearm) · da arkebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · pl arkabuz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · uk аркебу́за (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ja 火縄銃 (obsolete matchlock firearm) · tl alkabus (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ru аркебу́за (obsolete matchlock firearm) · ru пища́ль (obsolete matchlock firearm) · fi hakapyssy (obsolete matchlock firearm) · bg аркебу́з (obsolete matchlock firearm) · tl astinggal (obsolete matchlock firearm) · es arcabuz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · tr arkebüz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · sv arkebuse (obsolete matchlock firearm) · eo arkebuzo (obsolete matchlock firearm) · pt arcabuz (obsolete matchlock firearm) · nl haakbus (obsolete matchlock firearm) · pl arkebuz (obsolete matchlock firearm)